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Photo: Monitor lizard, by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

There Is No Known Evolutionary Rule for Animal Intelligence

Got a pet lizard? Good news. Scientists say it can be trained to do tasks and tricks. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›

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